Mother.

When Ji Qingyuan heard this, he looked at the girl beside him.

She was his mother, but Ji Qingyuan knew very well that to her, the woman who was called the master by this girl was also like a mother to her.

And even more so.

Although there is no blood relationship, the relationship between master and apprentice is even deeper than that of those who are related by blood.

No one but themselves could understand their feelings.

Not even him.

Ji Qingyuan was still immersed in the impact of getting the news of Lin Baoyue's death just now, and when he heard Ying Baoyue's question, he took a deep breath and gritted his teeth.

"Back then...... I ......," he said with difficulty, "I didn't get to see my mother one last time. I ......"

Ying Baoyue was stunned for a moment, and the next moment she stretched out her hand to cover the eyes of the young man in front of her.

"That's enough," she said softly, "if you don't want to, don't." There is no rush at this time. ”

Obviously, she wants to know more than anyone else in the world, and she wants to know it with all her heart, but for the sake of his mood, this person can endure it all the time.

Ji Qingyuan took a deep breath, then stretched out his hand to cover her hand, "I'm fine." ”

Seven years have passed for him, and no matter how deep the pain is, it has dried up.

"Everything started eight years ago," Ji Qingyuan took Ying Baoyue's hand and glanced at her with a complicated expression, "Although I know that you want to know your mother's business, your mother's business still has to start with your business." ”

They are inextricably linked.

Ying Baoyue bit her lip tightly.

"You're dead, but at least ordinary people don't know about it," Ji Qingyuan settled down, trying to peel off his emotions so that the conversation could go on normally.

And until the death or disappearance of the young priest Lin Baoyue, another person must be mentioned.

It all started with that nightmare eight years ago.

"Eight years ago, news came from the Afang Palace of the Qin Empire that Emperor Taizu had died."

The entire Shanhai Continent was shaken.

This is a real death, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a landslide.

As long as you are from the Shanhai Continent, you still remember the time when the world was sad and everyone was in danger.

However, Ji Qingyuan looked at the expression of the girl next to him while watching, but found that Ying Baoyue did not empathize with the words on her face, but was a little stunned.

Ji Qingyuan sighed in his heart, but he had to continue.

"Everyone is inquiring about the next succession, and they are also inquiring about the news of my mother."

Emperor Taizu died, and suddenly died without a hint of warning, and the next most important thing is the succession of the throne. And everyone knows that the only one who has the most power to influence the succession to the throne is his mother, Lin Shubai, the great teacher of the Qin Empire.

"But at this moment, news came from the palace that my mother was not by His Majesty's side when Emperor Taizu died."

Ying Baoyue heard this, and her eyes widened little by little.

It was the first time she had learned the details of what had happened in the chaos eight years ago.

Teng Snake has no memory of the year seven years ago, and as a beast god, it does not pay attention to the battle of humans as a beast god.

But compared to Teng Snake, Ji Qingyuan obviously knows a lot of inside information, at least he actually knows some things on the surface, more than Ying Baoyue imagined.

"Master, she was ...... Isn't it? Ying Baoyue muttered when she heard this.

For the first time, she learned that when the man died, the master was not by his side. This is obviously very anomalous.

But in Ji Qingyuan's eyes, Ying Baoyue at this time was also very wrong.

This thing...... Doesn't she know? Although ordinary people don't know these details, how could she not know? What really happened to her? Ji Qingyuan's heart suddenly felt a little cold.

"Go on." Ying Baoyue looked at Ji Qingyuan and said.

Ji Qingyuan settled his mind and continued.

"Mother is not here, I just knew it in the palace for some reason, and there was chaos in the palace, and at this moment there was news that although my mother was not there, someone saw you enter the palace before."

"Me?" Ying Baoyue was slightly stunned when she heard this.

Ji Qingyuan's heart felt even more strange.

It was as if the woman was listening to something else, and if it weren't for the other information, he would have doubted her identity again.

"Anyway, my mother didn't rush back for a while, and since I heard you, the people in the palace began to look for you."

Although the big secretary is not there, if the young secretary is here, he can stabilize the scene for a while.

Even though she had lived in seclusion in the Cloud Forest for a whole year and did not ask about the world, the prestige of that girl at the critical moment was still rooted in the Qin people's hearts

"However, at this moment," Ji Qingyuan clenched the clothes on his chest, and he still remembered how heartbroken he was when he learned the news.

"There's news from the palace that you're gone."

Following the death of Emperor Taizu.

Shao Si ordered Lin Baoyue to disappear.

At that time, people were just in ordinary panic, but just after the third day, the great priest ordered Lin Shubai to rush back to Afang Palace.

She didn't know if she was dragged by something, and she was covered in embarrassment that the people of Guiyang had never seen.

But what impressed the people who saw this scene at that time was the look of the woman who had always been extremely strong and determined, and her soul was lost.

Ji Qingyuan saw this scene and could never forget it.

I don't know if it's fate or a curse, the reason why he is so clear about all this is that when Afang Palace was changing, he happened to be in Guiyang City

That was his last successful sneak, for which he planned for a whole year.

Since Lin Baoyue got engaged, he has been hiding at home and not going out, but later when the marriage contract changed and Lin Baoyue went into the mountains and forests to retreat, he regretted wanting to see her, but found that he couldn't enter the cloud forest at all.

When he ran away to Guiyang that year, it was the first time he wanted to go to his mother with his own strength, and he wanted to ask his mother to take him to meet her.

But Ji Qingyuan never expected that the first time he arrived in Guiyang, he would catch up with this huge change.

He was standing on the side of the street in disguise, looking at his mother, who was always calm and powerful in his memory, almost as he swept through the street in embarrassment, almost knocking over several stalls.

After passing by him for hundreds of steps in one breath, the dusty man god came back to his senses, looked back at himself standing in the crowd in a daze, and paused for the first time.

Looking at the woman in the distance whose clothes were full of tears, she turned her head, her eyes met, and he muttered and wanted to speak, "Mother......"

But before he could do anything, a gust of wind struck, and he found that he had been grabbed and caught under his arm, and the woman took him all the way into the Afang Palace without saying a word.

And in the main hall of Afang Palace at that time, there was no coffin.

What Ji Qingyuan didn't expect was that he actually saw his father there.

Before the great priest ordered Lin Shubai to return to Afang Palace, several other gods who were in other places actually rushed to Afang Palace first, and then handled the aftermath according to Emperor Taizu's will.

Emperor Taizu Emperor Ying asked him to be buried immediately after his death, and put the coffin into the pre-built mausoleum to close the emperor's mausoleum, so as to seek a long life.

In addition to Lin Shubai and Lin Baoyue, the two gods, who were not present at the time, were only the Houliao Shenzi Mountain Ghosts who were too far away and arrived, and the remaining five of the eight gods presided over the funeral together within one, buried the coffin of Emperor Taizu secretly, and completely closed the tomb of Emperor Zu.

What he and his mother saw was already a scene where the dust had settled.

Ji Qingyuan remembered that his mother took his hand, clenched his hand so painfully, and looked at the empty hall in a daze.

"Is the book white?"

His father stood on the high platform, just glanced back at them, his gaze lingered on him for a moment, then he just looked at his mother and spoke lightly.

"You're a step too late."

And at that moment, Ji Qingyuan suddenly felt that it was difficult to breathe, and a terrifying coercion suddenly permeated from his mother.

There was no mention of Emperor Taizu, no mention of the so-called throne, the only woman on the top of the hall just looked at the man on the high platform and spoke word by word.

"What about her?"